Change for the Children

Change For the Children is a foundation created to support programs that motivate and inspire children to face adversity with confidence, determination and a will to succeed. The foundation, which was started by the Jonas Brothers, thinks that the best people to help children is other children: kids can help other kids who are less fortunate. How to do that? Well, the foundation has a partnership with the organization Do Something, which offers different kinds of volunteer work, so that you can help in many ways.

The programes supported by the foundation includes:

• Finding a cure for Diabetes and supporting people with this disease, helping to raise awareness, support and research. (Diabetes awareness)
• Inclusion of people with intelectual disabilities, helping them to develop self-confidence, social skills and a sense of personal accomplishment. (The Special Olympics)
• Volunteerism - the importance of getting involved and making the difference. (Volunteerism)

You can go to the sites above and see how to get involved. You can also see stories of change, and know more about the programs helped by the foundation.

10 USEFUL SITES:

1. Just Jared
This is the perfect site if you're interested in... Celebrities!
You can find real time information about what your favorite celebrities are doing, where they have been, what events they were in, pictures and videos about their concerts or upcoming movies or even about their vacations! The site also contains a special link for Teen Celebrities, in case you'd rather know more about them!

2. 4 Shared

Here you can download files of all kind: songs, desktop stuff, photos, videos, and even books!

3. Scientific American

In this site you can see news and curiosities from all over the world. Scientific facts in an interesting way! Perfect if you want to know what's happening to your home Earth.

4. Mini Clip

Do you like games? So let's play! Games for all the tastes, and from all over the world!

5. East of The Web

If you like to read, so this is the perfect place for you! Stories from different writers, genres, and sizes! And of course, all in English.

6. ACCU Weather

Here you can find information about the weather in you city, or the side of the world. You can also find news about what happened because of the weather changing. Very useful you are planning a trip or going on a vacation!

7. Expedia Travel

This is a website where you should go if you're planning a trip or want to go on vacation. Here you can find everything related to your next trip: hotels, flights, cars, or even cruises! One, two or three destinations, with your family or by yourself, you cand find a good price!

8. Fashion

Tips about fashion? So you are in the right place. What to wear or not to wear, what's in or out, the best colors and acessories... You find it all here!

9. Amazon

Here you can buy books, cds, movies, clothes, computer stuffs, games... whatever comes to you mind! And they deliver it all at your home, no matter where do you live!

10. ESPN

Finally, if you like sports, this is the perfect place for you. All about the last game, or the one that's happening right now!

What does the music do?

It can't be difficult to believe that a melody has a use when you hear your tuneless neighbour. But believe me : new theories claim that music changed the pace of human evolution.

Before you reading this try to remember how many times did you hear a song in this week. Not only on the radio or in the waiting room from your doctor. It' very likely that you had one of this recent days without hearing some music. Music is arround us. There's no way to live without hearing a melody. There's music to dance, date, study... Music to face the traffic, work, go to the gym and to relax at the end of the day. Music to pray, heal and store. To communicate the emotions that we can't transmit only by means of words. And music simply to listen and enjoy.

In the society today , if we're sourrounded by music with both hard, it's assumed that, as well as the speech, it will serve to something, has some specific function for humanity. But what ?

Today, good part of scientific research by explanations have an evolutionary and biologic perspective. But many still see only as a cultural product returned to the pleasure, without any importance to human development.

But we think that music makes a huge difference in our lives. The music give us inspiration and make us so much happier. We think that we couldn't live without songs. We believe that music make easier the communication with the people and stimulates our minds.

For sure music make life so much better :)

Who we are?

Hi there. We are Nicole and Nathália, two girls aged 15 who are just trying to live and have fun. We are doing this blog for an English work at our school, Colégio Santo Antônio. We've been studying there for about 9 years, and we spend most of our time there. We love our school, but sometimes we have a lot of hard work.

Anyway, we love near each other, and love to hang out, go to the mall, to the cinema... But what we love the most is to ride a bike togheter! We try to do it always we can. What we also like to do is to listen to music. Our favorite singers are Miley Cyrus, Demi Lovato, Jonas Brothers, John Mayer, Ke$ha, 3OH!3, between others. We also like to watch TV, and our favorite serie is Grey's Anatomy! We also lije to watch Private Practice, Desperate Housewives, Hannah Montana, JONAS, etc.

Well, we chosed this name for our blog, 'Not Solo', inspired by the name of a song by Demi Lovato, 'Solo'. But, as you can see, we are not alone here, so we decided to call our blog 'Not Solo'. We hope you like and enjoy it!

Nicole & Nathália